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Funeral in sentence

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A few days later, we had a funeral with our immediate family, including baby Callum, and we basically closed this chapter in our lives.
Toll the funeral bells for everything that made America great.
So after the funeral, it was time for me to go back to my studio.
For the last nine years, I've worked in the funeral industry, first as a crematory operator, then as a mortician and most recently, as the owner of my own funeral home.
And I have some good news: if you're looking to avoid the whole "doomed to decay and die" thing: you will have all the help in the world in that avoidance from the funeral industry.
Whether they mean to or not, the funeral industry promotes this idea of human exceptionalism.
The funeral industry will protect your dead body by offering to sell your family a casket made of hardwood or metal with a rubber sealant.
My funeral home sells a few caskets made out of things like woven willow and bamboo, but honestly, most of our families just choose a simple shroud.
I think for a lot of people, they're starting to get the sense that our current funeral industry isn't really working for them.
I ran into a woman in West Virginia who was going to a funeral for her mom.
Imagine it, part public park, part funeral home, part memorial to the people we love, a place where we can reconnect with the cycles of nature and treat bodies with gentleness and respect.
In her stories, a mother has a face “as broad and innocent as a cabbage,” a man has as much drive as a “floor mop,” and one woman’s body is shaped like “a funeral urn.”
This is an old Mayan funeral chant that he got from his grandfather.
And once you do it, once it's your love or your baby, once it's your grief and your front row at the funeral, you get it.
And with his last human strength, he reaches over to take one of the biscuits, and his wife sees him, she rushes over, she slaps his hand, and she says, "No, they are for the funeral."
There was a funeral in a church.
Yes, I want all your lives to be a joke, and that they have punchlines; that they have (German) "die Poente," as good as "No, they are for the funeral," "It's already in his wife's name," "Not screaming like his passengers," and "Thank you for flying Lufthansa."
He had only weeks to live and had, in fact, already paid for his funeral.
The book opens at the funeral of the twins’ half-British cousin Sophie after her drowning.
A baby bat crawls up a funeral sari.
I'm just calling to invite you to my funeral."
I like to imagine that if these treatments had been available for Rebecca, that call from her could have been an invitation not to her funeral, but her wedding.
And on that particular day, I'm in a place called Soweto in South Africa, and I'm sitting in a place that sells funeral insurance.
OK, so I sit in this place that sells funeral insurance.
It will cover 90 percent of his funeral expense only if he dies in the next seven days.
I know there are many times when I've gone and conducted a funeral, or when I have been sitting with the bereaved, or with people who are dying, and I am overwhelmed by the sadness, by the difficulty, the challenge that is there for the family, for the person.
The test of your worldview is how you act at the funeral.
I grew up in an Australian community where people got old or sick and passed away, and only the adults attended the funeral.
A dear neighbor who was like an aunt to me died suddenly of a heart attack, and I attended my first funeral and did my first reading.
We talked about the practical stuff, the stuff no one prepares you for: dealing with government agencies, hospitals, nursing homes, advanced care directives, funeral directors and extended family members, (Laughter) making decisions about coffins, headstones, headstone wording, headstone font size, all while sleep-deprived.
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